Reflective Essay on Type of Care Received by Mr. Taylor

Running head: Reflection essay
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
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Introduction
This essay aims will argue about the type of care received by Mr Taylor and will evaluate
how the service delivery could be improved by reflecting on the experiences of Mr.Taylor. Mr.
Taylor is a 75 old man who had suffered from three falls back to back, three years before that is
still having an impact on his life. While describing about his own experience, he also brings
forwards some of the bad experience related to medical care that disappointed him and refrain
him from further visiting a hospital
However this essay will refer to the NSQHS standards of nursing and the “Need theory”
of nursing to reflect on the experience.
Description
The subject of my Gibb’s reflection is Mr. Taylor, who is a 75 years old man and had
suffered from three falls consecutively. It can be seen from this case scenario that, due to his past
experiences, Mr. Taylor does not want to visit a hospital, and rather waited for the next day to
see the GP. His unwillingness to visit a public hospital is due to the fact that once he had to wait
unattended, for about 11 hours in the waiting room with an intense pain of kidney stones, and
thus he prefers to wait at home rather than spending time in the waiting room.
Mr. Taylor’s experience regarding the GP had also questioned the attitude of the health
care professionals. Few years back Mr. Taylor had a 30 cm tear in the muscles due to a sudden
fall, where he encountered a surgeon who used an abusive sentence that directly displays
violation of patient’s respect and dignity.

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Hence the key themes that will be discussed in this essay is, equal care for very patients,
irrespective of the age group and ethnicities and the ethical conduct of the health care
professionals. The main rationale for choosing these themes are due to the fact that each and
every person has got the equal rights of getting the basic care , which is also in compliance with
the Australian nursing standards and the codes of ethics of the nurses.
Feelings and thoughts
While reflecting on the experience of Mr. Taylor, I was surprised to find out that the
person had an immense sense of patience and in spite of all these, still has faith on the health care
professionals and still appreciates the ways of treatment. Focusing on the incident where Mr.
Taylor actually had to wait for long 11 hours with pain, I should admit that although hospital
wards, sometimes remain overcrowded, but some considerations should be meant for elderly
people like Mr. Taylor, so that they atleast get the basic primary care treatment (Shahriari,
Mohammadi, Abbaszadeh & Bahrami, 2013).
Apart from being active in their treatment, empathetic words and being in tune with the
sufferings of the patients acts as a healer for the patients. Hence, I strongly feel that, referring an
old man as an old rag is equally disrespectful and rude.
Values and beliefs
Apart from the nursing codes of ethics there are some of my personal values that I have
received from my parents that directs me to treat each and every person with respect and the
dignity. It is this personal belief that would help me to develop in my professional practice.
Furthermore before taking up the profession of nursing I was made well aware of the different
nursing codes of ethics whose main element is care and compassion (Zahedi et al., 2017). Apart